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AI and its capabilities are becoming more and more of a hot topic, especially as it relates to creatives. In 150-300 words, state why you’re either for OR against the use of AI in graphic design. Regardless of what side you choose, you need to state 3 reasons that support your stance.
Due 11 PM • Sunday, 4/5
In my opinion I am against the use of AI in graphic design. The reason being because AI can fall into the hands of someone evil that might completely build their success off of full AI work. This can be very unjust and I think that is abuse of a good tool and I just think that in order for things like this to not happen there should be consequences that an individual should face or just like a set of rules where your art shouldn’t be used with AI or AI can’t make most of your art, or for at least half of the art just something like that. For example, the tool can be used to approach a project may have in mind or for some research. Lastly, I am against the use of AI in graphic design because it can be used in an evil way which can give credit and fame to the designers without the actual talent.
When it comes to AI, I am against it for plethora of reasons. I believe creativity is a natural gift that is mental, emotional and spiritual. (Not everyone is meant to be an artist/creative) Being creative comes from lived experiences. To have AI put together something is a form of illusion (i.e people generating photoshoot/video of non-existing people ) It’s enforcing a form of escapism. Life is meant to be lived. Another reason I am against AI is that it takes the joy of being an actual artist from brainstorming, ideation, execution and presentation. As well as collaborating with other artists. (Community is currently lacking right now in today society.) There is a lot of hard work people put in to perfect their craft; there is a lot of integrity into that. Personally, I would rather learn to do things the original way or long way. It’s very discouraging to see some companies take the cheapest route to “cut cost” or “save time” rather than hiring an actual artist making job even more competitive. Lastly, the reading level has changed with about 60% of 12th graders score below proficient in reading. If the next generation struggles or lack the interest to read or write, I think AI will make it worst. Critical thinking enables us to solve problems effectively, improve decision making and encourage intellectual independence and growth.
First, AI can limit true creativity. Graphic design is rooted in personal expression, cultural context, and human emotion—things that AI cannot genuinely replicate. While AI can generate visuals quickly, it relies on existing data and patterns, which often leads to repetitive or generic results rather than truly original ideas.
Second, the use of AI raises serious ethical concerns. Many AI systems are trained on artwork created by real designers without their consent. This means designers’ work can be copied or imitated without credit or compensation, which undermines the integrity of the creative industry and disrespects the labor behind original designs.
Third, AI threatens job opportunities for designers. As companies prioritize speed and cost-efficiency, they may rely more on AI tools instead of hiring human designers. This could reduce demand for creative professionals and devalue the skills, education, and experience that designers bring to their work.
Overall, while AI may offer convenience, it comes at the cost of authenticity, fairness, and professional stability. Graphic design should remain a human-centered field where creativity, intention, and originality are at the forefront.
When it comes to AI, in my opinion, I’m overall against it especially when it comes to graphic design. The reason for this is that it really takes away the creativity and overall hard work that a person can do. While yes, it can be helpful in some cases when used correctly to assist you, it is not really worth it because 9 times out of 10, people would just use it to do the whole artwork for them, and yet the AI didn’t do it correctly, which will end up with the work looking awful. AI these days raises concerns of job taking, but if you were to test out an AI and tell it to create something, it would either do it correctly or not, based on the instructions. AI can’t really replicate what a human can do, so overall AI is not worth investing in unless you’re using it to assist you and you’re doing all/most of the work, then it’s okay. But my stance is still against AI, especially in graphic design, and no one should use it for their work if it means taking away the effort, charm, and dedication towards it.
The 3 reasons why I am against the use of AI in graphic design is:
The first reason is that AI in graphic design just feels lazy as instead of doing the work yourself, you’re having AI do it for you and that just builds up a characteristic of cutting corners, half assing the work, and just an overall reliance on AI to do everything for you.
The second reason is lack of creativity in the use of AI, when using AI to generate an image it uses the same art style every single time, nothing different. This makes the artwork or image feel pointless, uninterested, empty, and straight up just boring. AI just makes images for you to get the work done faster rather than putting in effort to make the image or art have purpose and that infuriates me.
The third reason is that it is criminal in term of stealing art styles and causing people to lose there jobs. In the world of business, AI is highly loved because it get the job done fast and efficiently. However, it is costing a lot artist their jobs because it help get the ones in charge of the company to make a quick buck. Not only that but some people use AI to steal artwork and styles with no credit and claim them as their own.
Ai is a tool to help assist people into seeking suggestion, not to use for people to exploit and cheat. My overall opinion of the use of AI in Graphic Design remains unchanged as it is lazy, uncreative, and it i a form of plagiarism at best.
When it comes to art, I am all against AI, this for multiple reasons.
AI as a research tool can be very helpful, finding sources, quoting, and other things that facilitate writing and investigating large topics information wise, but for art this is not the case.
Graphic design revolves around various branches of art, it incorporates drawing, illustrating, manipulating many different softwares, creative and logical/mathematical thinking, etcetera. I firmly believe these are all basic human skills that can be further developed to become a great artist and graphic designer, so with the use of AI the brain does not need to develop the capacity of these built-in tools because a machine does it for ourselves, which then makes us dependent to it, taking away our autonomy as creatives.
Also, AI being artificial, lacks the human touch that comes with creativity, it might know how to do basic things like creating compositions out of shapes, lines, and other elements of design, but only a human can relate to what other humans go through, what other humans think, what other humans could feel when they stare at a specific part of a design. Only a human can understand what goes on in another human’s brain.
I am against AI in graphic design because it can only imitate artwork that already exists, that’s my first reason on my stance. As a graphic designer, your professor or client wants your work, you were chosen for the job. The AI model was not assigned any work, you have to manually use tools to create an art piece — not type in prompts for a swift result. AI is the lazy answer to solving a problem because it generates finished work instantaneously. Graphic design is a process and the core principles of it is utilizing tools and problem solving in real time. Something done by hand should never be generated with prompts. All that does is highlight how you have an inability to create and have a lack of understanding on how to create.
My second reason for my stance is how AI puts you in a loop of fruitless trial and error. Normally trial and error exists in any art form, but with AI it will put you in circles with no gradual improvement. Solving one problem may cause another problem. Without human intervention, you can never truly achieve the specifications you want in your graphic design. A graphic designer in Illustrator or Photoshop can fix minor mistakes in a few minutes. A prompter will realize the mistake, try to fix it with a prompt, and it won’t get anywhere near close to solving the problem faster than a graphic designer editing something themselves.
Lastly, my third reason for my stance on AI in graphic design is that you can’t call yourself a graphic designer if you’re primarily using AI in the field, to which then devalues the job. The profession loses its value when a prompter assumes the role of a person with talent in art. A job as an artist is a dignified role, there’s nothing to be proud of being an AI prompter. Multiple sources confirm data centers consumes millions of gallons of fresh water from local communities per day, has exacerbated inflation in RAM prices, and has shown to have contributed to the rise of unemployment due to automation. With this information in mind, to have AI tied to graphic design is in bad taste considering the negative impacts its had on a global scale. Generally, incorporating the use of AI prompting in graphic design changes the meaning of the profession.
I’m not sure where I stand with AI. I know that it can be useful for us all and comes in handy, but it also has its downsides, such as putting people’s jobs at risk, especially in the film and design industries. But if I had to choose, I would be against it. AI can take things away from this industry, sure, it may help us bring things in with just trying a few words, but if we could do it, then anyone can do it. There would be no point in pursuing this career. AI takes away the creative and originality aspect of design. AI just picks at things from what already exists and does not change much, meaning giving you something that is essentially a copy. Basically, AI takes a lot away from designers; it’s something that we can’t really control or prevent from growing because of that evolution. Sometimes, we might just even have to find a way to work with it.
WHY I HATE AI IN DESIGN-
AI functions on data centers which feed on information collected. These data centers operate at very high speed, hence they also heat up at a very high pace. In order to stop them from overheating these data centers use fresh water to act as a coolant (like overheated engines of a car)- gallons and gallons for every single day for one chatgpt question. Research says that one single data center uses up to 700,000 liters of fresh clean potable water to train an AI model. Many regions located near these data centers are facing arid land, water scarcity, water poisoning and soil leaching already. some sources say that by next year AI would have to require 4.22 6.6 billion cubic metres of fresh clean drinkable water (exceeding normal annual water consumption of a country like Denmark where at least 6 to 8 times). These data centers also operate on a massive massive scale, one single centre can be a size of a small town, and hundreds of acres of forest and agricultural land have been wiped clean to build them.
Of course, design is heavily dependent on technology, we wouldn’t have modern design without the introduction of the Mac or Adobe tools. Designers have adopted using AI and generative art as tools but are they really benefitting from it? Generative AI is marketed to make it seem like it makes art ‘accessible’ to the general public and small brands but isn’t it really capitalist billionaires reaping the benefits of it while small artists who get their work stolen pay the price.
By making generative art ‘accessible’ we’re losing important skills that fuel the creative industry. For example, if all brands use AI generated campaigns and advertisements there would be no need for animators or art directors. This not only creates risks for job security but also endangers these skills because in a few years they will no longer be relevant. On a more immediate front, AI generated design leaves no room for authenticity and originality as it literally generates art from fed data. Cases of plagiarism and copyright infringement are many, and smaller artists who get who get their work stolen have no legal there are many very few regulations in place to protect them. AI has become so easily accessible and so rampantly consumes it it force feeds us mediocre date art in the name of efficiency.
Most importantly, I disagree with the use of AI especially in creative fields, as what AI misses is a soul- it strips art of what makes it art. To be inspired and to create is a very human urge and no artificial intelligence can replace or replicate it.
-Shivaani Sharma